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Homer, The Odyssey

Greek epic poet (800 BCE - 700 BC)

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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

– Homer, The Odyssey

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

– Homer, The Odyssey

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Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.

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